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What can we do next?

Gospel                    Matthew 6.25–33 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds…

The seasons of life

Gospel                    Mark 10.2–16 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce…

Reach out in love

Gospel                     Mark 9.38–50 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in…

What are we arguing about?

Gospel                     Mark 9.30–37 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him,…

What would you have been thinking?

Gospel                     Mark 8.27–38 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of…

Live a life of faithfulness

Gospel                     Mark 7.24–37 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit…

Journeys through education : Education Sunday

Gospel                     Mark 7.1–8, 14, 15, 21–23 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the…

The bread of life – the ultimate satisfaction

Gospel           John 6.56-69   Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord     Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will…

Baptism – our RSVP

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord    I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then…

When life gives you lemons…..there is hope

First Reading           1 Kings 19.4–8 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom tree…